Posts by doesnothingwell

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Every search page mostly has a news, images, shopping buttons. When I want to shop I will click shop, until then piss off. Advertising agencies should be crapping themselves that we don't all figure this out.

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

Maybe?

The trio of terror started bossing around the windows kernel team, that would be their style.

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Thirty years on now

I thought everyone knew Oracle means - You can buy better, but you can't pay more.

China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

Re: Similar to

Makes me wonder if many governments think they might be able to track reactors moving around the worlds seas? Lots o money for just basic "research". Probably not enough detections and maybe noise, but it makes me wonder.

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

Trapped in our own monkey cage.

"Incredible. Americans get what they deserve."

Most of us tried to do the right thing, but you try to reasoning with idiots sometime. Not to rub it in, but how'd that brexit thing work out?

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

"... he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit."

As an American, we are quite proud that he no longer tries to hump the leg of visiting dignitaries, well the male ones anyway.

I can also say most of his supporters proudly share most of his personality traits.

Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage

Policy may vary.

"Please Delete" and a Text file put in them named "HR will be informed if not removed from company owned storage"

My last CEOs policy was don't fill up the server, and tell him the name the shared folders.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: Bright and warm days

"Given that hands are opaque how are they not shielding the mice from stray sunlight?"

After fixing a few using black tape inside the housing, either it shines thru a crack, diffuses thru plastic, or both. The users hand rarely covers the entire surface. In twenty years of service calls I only saw it twice.

Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap before he even enters office

Everything Else

"Americans will always do the right thing after they try everything else." I think is the quote. I am an American, and this shit is something else.

After we fix that, how about we also accidentally break something important?

Re: The Rules

"hard water that will freeze out the standard gate valves without fail after two years"

I've learned to turn all open water valves a quarter turn towards closed, they're less likely to jam open and you can work them back and forth when they do.

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

Re: Somehow became corrupted?

I did one for a friend whose new boss was ex military and being a pain. A floppy that installed a hacked command.com and rebooted the system after 10 min, then erased the floppy. Without timing the reboots one could never tell if it was drivers or hardware and would eventually reinstall windows. The whole business went under within a year.

Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals

Re: Put them off..

If you install the Russian language pack would hackers be able to type power shell commands directly in Russian? Might protect you for awhile, but I doubt it. Maybe some "I love Vlad" wallpaper?

Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel

Quit making excuses

I said I should use Linux for about 10 years but Windows didn't suck THAT bad. well 5 years ago it did, and I switched. The old windows machines whine they can't update and I just laugh. they behave like they have some value. Somebody tell Satya his horse is pining for the fjords. Beautiful plumage.

Boeing might be criminally prosecuted for 737 MAX crashes after all, says DoJ

Re: Immoral

Its ok, last time they paid a fine, but this time the CEO has to do a book report during summer vacation!

Serial extortionist of medical facilities pleads guilty to cybercrime charges

Just imagine his new cellmate asking Studmaster: Do you want to be the husband or the wife?

AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least

'Free RAM is wasted RAM.'

Tell that to my "xtg-desktop-portal" process which grows endlessly and after a couple weeks will use all my memory. PC gets real slow and is unusable for many minutes if I don't kill the process. So yeah I want 25% free memory until all my software learns to play mice, which is mostly never. I even replaced the whole PC with a R7 5800x and same crap, kernel and version updates don't fix it. Linux Mint Mate 21.3 16GB

Ex-Microsoft maverick takes us on a trip through vintage Task Manager code

Re: Not just me, then

"Task Manager will either not appear at all or only appear partially. "

Thats why you start it before anything else and leave it running. Your chances of getting it to run quickly for a kill are greatly improved.

US AGs: We need law to purge the web of AI-drawn child sex abuse material

Re: Consistency?

Being from Ohio I can say that this is just grandstanding for the "permanently outraged" to get votes. Gun control would save more children, so would chasing the producers of CP (the FBI distributes it to trap users). The authorities are all outraged but not enough to actually stop it, just to keep their jobs chasing it with more "control .vs. privacy" rhetoric. Once the public is fitted with mind control helmets what will they outrage over then?

AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage

Your confused?

Dark Helmet: What the Hell am I lookin’ at? When does this happen in the movie?

Sandurz: Now. Whatever you’re looking at now, is happening now.

Dark Helmet: Well, what happened to then?

Sandurz: We just passed it.

Dark Helmet: When?

Sandurz: Just now.

Dark Helmet: Well, go back to then.

Sandurz: We can’t.

Dark Jelmet: Why not?

Sandurz: We already passed it.

Dark Helmet: When will then be now?

Sandurz: Soon.

Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?

Re: Data Center Straining Wastewater Plant?

How is a large data center potentially putting strain on a wastewater plant?

Its always more complicated than it sounds, some tap water evaporates which cconcentratis the minerals remaining in it. These minerals will clog the system if not flushed down the dtain or left to evaporate on the ground.

You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face

Re: How hard can it be?

You can cancel any time, just come to our offices with a live chicken and a rabbi. These are not just petty rules designed to make you go away quietly. I never sign up for autopay or auto whatever just for these reasons and make them send you a paper bill.

Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right?

Re: Reminds me of an old (early '80s) AI koan ...

I had one desktop PC that would lock up but not with the cover off. The case had a small cutout on the boittom and cold air from the A/C would get pulled across the motherboard. Covering the hole with tape was a temporary fix, I didn't have a spare board with me.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

'This went on for around the first TWO YEARS of XP's existence.'

From 98 on you never ran windows until service pack 2 came out.

Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of

Re: Et Tu Brother

I avoid firmware updates they sometimes remove features for security, maybe I want to telnet locally into my ip cam. I have a Brother and it logs into the wireless router instead, then it's only one connection to fix. Ethernet is better but they don't put it on the lower models any more.

Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

Re: Employee memo number 2

Going full twat.

No formal certifications? CUE the Ubuntu skills testing scheme

Monetize

Put a fricken employment poll on every article, make it pointless, make them all them same, pester your followers they're just a burden anyway.Where the hell is Dabsey?

This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car

Re: Meh

Don't mention the motor platter combo used to cut the master disc. It will have left its ugly distortion behind on all the pressed copies.

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

Re: Like so: C:\>.

My nephew had a Toad for a boss (ex military), so I gave him a floppy that added invisible commands to autoexec then the floppy formatted itself. I told nephew to just leave it in the a: drive first thing and wait. The boss's computer would reboot every 10 min from then on, just long enough to try fixing it and then fail. Kept him busy for a few days.

Bank had no firewall license, intrusion or phishing protection – guess the rest

Whenever Jake calls me about "a problem with my computer", he is from Windows.

Amazon Alexa can be hijacked via commands from own speaker

Re: Bet I am the only one

No amazon purchases here, just price checks and feature searches thru ddg.

Dark-mode Task Manager unveiled by original's creator

Some of us always start Task Manager or System Monitor on every system, and a couple of terminals just in case. Windows 95 taught me to be ready to kill a process "when one goes bad" not if. I used to enjoy killing the desktop process and restarting it when things got weird.

Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO

Midwestern paradise

Yep, come to Ohio we have conservatives, rednecks, and legalized matrimonial rape (if she's passed out and can't say no.) Our politicians just got caught taking 60 million in bribes from energy lobbyist so we're ready for some Intel bribes.

Revealed: Remember the Sony rootkit rumpus? It was almost oh so much worse

Re: About Sony...

It gets better, Sony stole some software from another company to create their rootkit. Stealing to prevent stealing because they're the good guys.

Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive

Think evil, use signs or codes with: DROP TABLE id_no, plate_no, registration_no; Should have sanitized inputs.

If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this

Re: So the solution is ...

"strolling at a leisurely pace, into a high security AI protected area wearing a T-shirt that says"

qr code for DROP TABLES faces;

Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

Re: Power supply on the floor?

The B series used 40v power bricks with 6ft cords that fed dc to dc converters internally. They used a pass through x-bus (roughly 50x2 0,1 pins) that went out both sides and you used a lever to lock them together. These things were horrible, they looked a lot like toasters, you shoved expansion blocks (more toasters) into a long chain on the desktop. I had to run parts to the guy who serviced them, I did the PC's.

Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious

Re: Yay, second life is back

"I must investigate how I can record an hour of myself looking interested"

Film yourself watching a porn flick, something shocking you've never seen before.

Re: Who is the target market for this?

"Lame Dad" is great when used sarcastically. That look on their not so little faces as they begin to grasp, it sounds ridiculous when anyone says "fo shizzle my nizzle."

BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

Re: Learnings

This is not something I've heard in "America" in forty or fifty years until just last week. I think its's our conservatives showing that they can spell and do maths.

For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5

Re: Conversely

I used one color laser (Lexmark) that had a print black/white option but deeper in the setting it had print black using "black only." Yes, the dumb thing would use all the colors make black (photo accurate) so check your options thoroughly.

Ah, I see you found my PowerShell script called 'SiteReview' – that does not mean what you think it means

"Stash of illicit SNES ROM files" Without distribution its copywrite infringement and not criminal. Besides he may own the physical copies as well, not a violation. Lighten up Francis.

What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? 'Beloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domains'

Re: I don't know the title...

Jizz Mopper

BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage

Every server my old company built used cheap fans, they all went noisy or seized within a year. I saved a lot of time by using a syringe with a secret mix of (herbs and spices)* injected injected thru the rear seal while still running. I learned to check them even if no one complained and I was on site for other reasons. * 50/50 wd40 and SAE30 non detergent oil

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

Re: The problems:

I used to service printers for a few county jails, HP LaserJet 4s could easily do 500,000 pages before needing serviced. The status page included a page count. Not indestructible but leading the field for sure. After year 2000 they started down the path to low quality.

Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can go wrong

Re: What happened to Do no evil?

It was sold to alphabet and shot in the head.

Why is ransomware still a thing? One-in-three polled netizens say they would cave to extortion demands

Re: The #1 Rule Of Computing

Just like driving, if you hit every frinkin chuckhole and you wheels keep falling off then yes its the users fault. The damage get larger as the dangers increase and thats just like driving 101, don't hit things. Also sleep with your machanic, if they're good looking.

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

I once wrote a full screen trojan that looked just like a bios password prompt. After typing in the ******* it dumped you back to windows leaving a file with the password (muzette). Ten years later I still have it, but I don't have any morons still trying to keep password from their support person.